All branches of the Marin County Free Library will be closed on Monday, May 27, 2013, in observance of Memorial Day.

 Va y es verdad...llega mañana, 21 de diciembre del 2012 y volamos todos por los aires como Matías Pérez y este mundo se va a pique. Pero igual, va y no.Se dice que nuestro calendario se...
The Christmas Wedding
Are you looking for some books to put you in the holiday mood?  In the Classic Catalog, if you type in Christmas stories as a subject heading, you’ll find 706 titles.  If you type...
This installment: cozy domestic island novel, a dystopian world through a teenager’s eyes, and a novel in which literature and journalism go head to head.  Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan...
Painting by Deanna Pedroli
Deanna describes her art work as “contemporary, postmodern, multi-media paintings. They are vibrant and richly colored, inspired by Miro, Lobdell and Matisse.”Deanna studied at the San...
A marriage has gone awry.  A wife is missing.  Her husband is suspected.  What really happened? Can this marriage be saved?These are the raw ingredients of Gillian Flynn’s...
What are these snowy friends up to when we aren't watching?  Here are some books that might give us some hints.......           ...
This installment: three novels--Virginia in the ‘40s, the internet as a marriage counselor, and Vienna in 1913 (with a dose of psychotherapy).   Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert...
Young child using Early Literacy Station at MCFL
“Dah,” says a very tiny girl as she touches the screen of the library’s new Early Literacy Station.  The elephant  trumpets.  “Dah!” she says more...
 But it's not rain rain, it KINETIC RAIN. And it's the world's largest kinetic art sculpture made of  1,216 gracefully moving, motorized, shiny bronze droplets. See it at the...
This installment: three novels about family dysfunction (a “specialty” of mine). One with a galvanizing death, one mixing teenage angst and magic, and one about the trickiness of...